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Pantheon

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What is Pantheon?

Pantheon is a WebOps platform where marketers and developers collaborate to drive results. The vendor states that with Pantheon, site owners maximize their capacity to update website design and functionality, responding to market trends, catering to consumer behavior, and adding…

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Users of this product have found it to be incredibly versatile, with a wide range of use cases. Customers have reported using the product …
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Pricing

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Basic

$29

Cloud
per month

Performance

$114

Cloud
per month

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://pantheon.io/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Pantheon?

Pantheon is a WebOps platform where marketers and developers collaborate to drive results. The vendor states that with Pantheon, site owners maximize their capacity to update website design and functionality, responding to market trends, catering to consumer behavior, and adding real value to the business's bottom line.


Today, companies compete on the basis of digital experiences, and the best results emerge from an agile build-test-learn process. Whether it's publishing content, automating processes, or optimizing UX, Pantheon aims to enable web teams to work in parallel and iterate in real time. They help companies engage their audience at the place it matters most — online.


Pantheon states they are the fastest growing platform for operating WordPress and Drupal sites — the open source technologies that deliver 35% of the web. Pantheon handles uptime, performance, scale, and security, and aims to make these broad community innovations accessible and valuable to all digital teams.

Powering more than 300,000 sites, and serving billions of pageviews each month, Pantheon boasts a strong customer retention rate with customers that include DocuSign, IBM, Google, Home Depot, Stitch Fix, Yale, Coach, ACLU, and IBM.

Pantheon Features

  • Supported: Serverless CMS
  • Supported: Structured Agile Workflows
  • Supported: Website Portfolio Management
  • Supported: Advanced Global CDN
  • Supported: Managed Updates
  • Supported: Multidev Cloud Environments
  • Supported: Terminus Command-Line Interface

Pantheon Screenshots

Screenshot of Find out in seconds if your site is ready to launch. Use Launch Check to get recommendations and discover site issues fast with our report based on over 50 automated checks.Screenshot of Our Developer Dashboard has everything you need to build, launch, and run Drupal and WordPress sites. Interface via SFTP or Git, deploy and scale your sites, and access tools like backups and one-click core updates. Easily add team members and control access.

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Pantheon Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Acquia Digital Experience Platform, WP Engine, and Pagely are common alternatives for Pantheon.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Pantheon are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of this product have found it to be incredibly versatile, with a wide range of use cases. Customers have reported using the product for various purposes, including improving their productivity, enhancing their creativity, and simplifying their daily tasks. They have praised its ability to seamlessly integrate with existing tools and systems, making it a valuable addition to their workflow. Additionally, reviewers have noted that the product offers a user-friendly interface and intuitive features, making it accessible to users of all skill levels. Some common use cases mentioned by customers include project management, content creation, data analysis, and collaboration among team members. Whether you're a professional looking to streamline your work processes or an individual seeking ways to enhance your personal projects, this product offers the flexibility and functionality to meet your needs.

Users commonly recommend the following based on their experiences with Pantheon: Try Pantheon for easy web hosting and release management. Users find it beneficial for power users, developers, and those who care about their environment but don't want to manage it themselves. Utilize Pantheon's excellent customer service. Many users emphasize the helpfulness and knowledge of the support staff. They consider Pantheon's customer service as a determining factor in using the platform. Read the documentation and ask questions. Users recommend reading the documentation to understand the hidden advantages and possibilities of using Pantheon. They encourage asking as many questions as possible, both to the support staff and through self-guided exploration. Take advantage of the free trial period and sandbox site to better understand how Pantheon functions before fully committing. Overall, users believe that Pantheon offers easy web hosting and release management capabilities, provides excellent customer service, and encourages users to explore its documentation and ask questions to maximize its potential benefits.

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Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Acquia was terrible. We use DigitalOcean for some all-purpose computing needs and Platform.sh for an application that does more computing and high-throughput processing where we do not want page views (API calls) to count against our usage.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Linode is good if you want to keep control of the infrastructure, webservers, etc. However, if you want to forget about it and focus in your website content; Pantheon will make your life much easier. acquia support system is terrible, it is slow and they send outdated documentation to "solve" your problems. The change when moving the Pantheon is noticeable; Pantheon's support is faster and much better. They do not close the ticket unless you are sure the issue has been solved.
Lankit Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Although it may seem a good fit for a company that needs extra control over the deployment process and development process, for a firm that is mainly concentrating on SEO, it would be an overkill. Pantheon provides that sweet automation that allows us to shed some weight on development and focus on our business activities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use several hosting solutions depending on the client needs or what they were already setup on. Pantheon is very similar to them and offers similar services however one of the main features we use is the Multidev service which allows us to test pieces of work separately and is something not found on other platforms or not as easy to achieve at least.
Naz Haque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I found Cloudways to be a better solution for our needs in comparison to Pantheon. With their integration of multiple hosting providers we had a wider selection of locations to choose from and finally a server nearer to our core audience.
Todd Underwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GoDaddy can't compete with Pantheon's speed, support, and backed tools. We built a WordPress site for a client in Pantheon, they insisted on us moving it to their existing GoDaddy account, and within three months, they paid us to move it back to Pantheon because of the site's slowness in GoDaddy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon stacks up fairly equally, and we chose Pantheon originally because, at the time of making our decision, they were the best partner for our business size, and who could help us through challenges that VIP could not. Today, we are with VIP as that was a faster and more connected integration to our website's CMS, which is also WordPress, and was merely the choice for us due to relationships our longtime developers had with the WordPress VIP team, yielding us insider discounts and enhanced customer service abilities.
Simon Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon unlike the above platforms is very easy to use the features and even on initial features configuration and also the deployment on Cloud is excellent. Pantheon has great data and other marketing content management capabilities through Cloud services and the collaboration offered by Pantheon is fantastic and productive and the reports are amazing.
Quratulain Habib, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A lot of the other providers on this list are different from each other with very different target audiences. The only thing Pantheon can compare with is managed WordPress hosting, WordPress-related support, and hosting on Google Compute Engine. Pantheon wins hands down in DevOps. The amount of website management that can be done by non-developers via the platform alone is unbelievable and no other managed hosting comes close to it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon is great because I can do everything and anything needed as a developer to get my clients satisfied. Drupal is the main CMS we use on Pantheon, and my experience has been pretty positive so far. I manage WordPress sites on my own, and that's easier to maintain for most uses.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon is leaps and bounds ahead of its competition in platform reliability, support, and platform features. The most important factor for us is uptime and support response times.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon provides stellar premium hosting for Drupal and WordPress. The platform is highly performant. Support is responsive and knowledgeable. System-enforced best practices improve site stability alongside rock-solid platform reliability. However, Pantheon absolutely charges for every positive feature and is a poster child for "you get what you pay for."
Jennifer Blair | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon offers an advantage over WP Engine and Flywheel by offering hosting support for both Drupal and WordPress websites. Pantheon's pricing model could be much more competitive, however. Pantheon ended up winning out over Media Temple in World Literature Today's hosting selection because of its managed hosting and enhanced support for medium to large scale websites. Pantheon's development, testing, and live environments are similar to WP Engine and Flywheel's, but Pantheon does have a much tidier and easier-to-navigate UI.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our former hosting company was DreamHost. While we loved DreamHost, especially since it was free for nonprofits, we were always flying by the seat of our pants developing and updating plugins on the live website. Pantheon's multi-dev platform allows us to work on several projects simultaneously while leaving our main production server alone until the code is ready for deployment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pantheon's use of Git is much better than WP Engine, and Pantheon's interface is better. However, Pantheon costs more and would likely suit medium to larger organizations.
GoDaddy's dedicated WordPress offering is much more restrictive compared with Pantheons and suits smaller-sized businesses/projects. It is much cheaper, though.
Gabrielle Conley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pantheon has been only the product I have had experience within my entire working career. It performs effectively with great ROI on the overall production of our company. The deployment process was easy, and all our team members had less time learning how it operates. I have not come across such a powerful website management product.
Sienna Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have no experience with similar products though Pantheon has proven to be the best WebOps. It has all tools that we require in website infrastructure from development to launching. Our teamwork has enabled us to create websites that have boosted the growth of our organization and profit gains. Working with the able and supportive team has enabled our team to achieve a lot.
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